I’m starting a new character, looking to do more of a pure caster build. Looking through the masteries and arcanist is essentially the only mastery not weapon dependent. I could couple with occultist, but what benefit does it give me? Not a single skill shares a damage type.
Demolistionist and shaman stand out as candidates, but i already have a druid, and besides, most of their skills are either summons, weapon attacks, or don’t share a damage type. Sorcerers aren’t really any better - sure, there’s fire & some lightning but there’s a lot of physical/chaos and even some pierce thrown in.
Nothing seems to fit the simple requirements of dealing purely elemental (all three or any one) damage and not requiring me to actually hit the enemy with my weapon.
Looking through the masteries and arcanist is essentially the only mastery not weapon dependen
Aether spellbinder is one of the most powerfull class combos in the game. Arcanist+Necro. One of the easyest to gear char too.
Fire/Elemental Magehunter is solid. Arcanist+Inquisitor. Easy to gear.
Burning sorc is a good option. Arcanist+Demo . Easy to gear.
You playing without AoM? Cause I don’t see you mention necro. Spellbinder is at the top tier of GD right now.
Every mastery actually has good synergy with Arcanist. I’ll detail them below:
Battlemage: Bad pre AoM. With aom, krieg battlemage is one of the most affordable (and strong) builds you can make. With more items, you can get spellscourge.
Warlock: this is personally one of the weaker arcanist combo, imo. You probably want DEE and use arcanist as support with just mirror/maiven but I think DEElock is a noob trap :p. TSS warlock is probably best without a lot of items because vulnerability. With more gear you can go aether with clairvoyant set.
Sorcerer: BWC sorc is my favorite build in all of GD. It’s strong and it’s got a few variants (meteors, pure dot, cataclysm). Some people go fire or lightning AAR with it but AAR is weak. Pre AoM sorc had good gunslinger builds that got obsolete with inquisitor release.
Spellbreaker: SS coldbreaker. This was once the strongest build before AoM and this is probably the most minmaxed class in GD. Still does some of the best damage in tbe game but the thing about this class is that it relies on minmaxing and one bad roll can sometimes make the build bad.
Druid: Totem, TSS, PRM. All of these are good. But take only one in your build and build around it.
Mage Hunter. Irrelevant without aom. It’s pretty grwat with runes. By great meaning 9 min 170 gladiator clears. Aether is also good with devastation since inq has aether RR.
Spellbreaker: SS coldbreaker. This was once the strongest build before AoM and this is probably the most minmaxed class in GD. Still does some of the best damage in tbe game but the thing about this class is that it relies on minmaxing and one bad roll can sometimes make the build bad.
PB Reaper > PB Coldbreacker>>>>SS Coldbreaker. Even fully GDstashed coldbreacker is nowhere near top dmg dealer in the game.
Dude. He’s talking about pre-Aom (I assume). If he’s not then his comments about DEE Warlock are wrong as well
Also Druid was shit pre-AoM. Well not shit, but not the best either
Arcanist is worth to pick for mirror+nullification (+maiven’s+inner focus+elemental balance) alone, regardless of the other mastery and/or damage types.
My opinion on coldbreaker is definitely outdated but I can’t really compare with other too builds except maybe Korba. Though pre AoM they were top damage.
On DEE, no for me DEE warlock is shit, compared to WB and WH. I mean I’d do aether and cold before I’ll even try to touch DEE on warlock.
And hey druid wasn’t that bad pre AoM. It can still work. But yeah it’s not the best.
DEE Poison CT using conversion with Meteors and Fiend is awesome. You do lack the insanely good mobility of Witch Hunter, although it seems FG will rectify that.
I hated Druid. I mean Battlemage was bad, sure. This is coming from someone who made a Pure Aether Blitzer before Krieg Set was even in the game and a Shield CT BM but Druid gave me cancer despite Zars posting incredibly well optimized builds with the class combo. It has to be the worst class combo I have played in the game since I have joined. Even Defiler and Apostate didn’t give me this much headache when AoM was brand new. Heck even Gravechill builds weren’t as bad for me
It’s weird though, only Druid could do Pre-AoM Crucible with Ultos set. Even Elementalist failed at that.
Wait conjurer wasn’t able to do that? Now I’m more impressed with old druid druid was one of my comfort classes back then cause I could do all content bar mog with a totem druid back then with relative safety, though I didn’t play cruci that time.
weird, i was walking crucible like walking in the park with my TSS druid. something is wrong here ? or people dont know how to play&build TSS druid or dont like to play them.
i assume you just dont like class combo thats why didnt dig hard
still druid is kinda weak,
no movement speed -> you need to craft good boots
no oa and espcially no DA unless savager -> you need items with high da %da
no resistant from both class -> you need insane resistant gear and have to invest on devotions
no armor no armor absorb goes on…
but free RR, totem playstle, insane cdr, absorb, stun res and such still good class but definetly not A tier
TSS breaker is what I preferred during vanilla. In vanilla Wind Devil didn’t have -%RR which was one of the biggest problems I had with Druid. That along with lack of OA and skills that inhibit kiting. Granted the latter problems still persist but the addition RR has made Druid just so much more likeable imo
Why do people say this. Warlock is super easy to build. You get vulnerability and blood of dreeg then use any skill in arcanist. What could be easier then this.
druid was one of my comfort classes back then cause I could do all content bar mog with a totem druid back then with relative safety, though I didn’t play cruci that time.
